Abstract
<jats:p>Based on archival and published sources, as well as the works of contemporary Ukrainian scholars, this study examines the managing activities of the prominent statesman Ivan Ohiienko as Rector, Minister of Education, and Chief Representative of the Government of the Ukrainian People's Republic (1918-1920), aimed at fully providing Kamianets-Podilskyi State Ukrainian University (KPSUU) with the necessary administrative, scientific, pedagogical, and library staff. Providing human resources was an important condition for the university to fulfill the tasks assigned to it by the state regarding the training of young intellectuals, conducting scientific research, mass lecture events, and organizing the work of the fundamental library and its reading room in order to supply the most complete information service possible to participants in the educational process and scientific research. This entire period is divided into four stages, each with its own characteristics and different final results in achieving short-term and overall goals, which, in general, provided the institution with a satisfactory level of essential administrative, teaching, and library staff. The most effective of these stages was the second one, when I. Ohiienko headed the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic and had the powers to officially appoint scientists to both state Ukrainian universities (thanks to his work, it was possible to send two dozen people to KPSUU for professors and private lecturers positions, although not all of them were able to show up for work). In each case, he determined the suitability of the applicants for the existing staffing needs and had personal contacts with some of them. The Minister became disappointed by M. Hrushevskyi's refusal to take up a professorship at this university, to which he had personally invited the distinguished historian. As the Chief Representative of the Government of Ukrainian People’s Republic, I. Ohiienko did not have significant opportunities to solve the staffing problem during the second academic year, but in the absence of state officials in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian People’s Republic, he sometimes approved on his own initiative the decisions of the university's academic council regarding changes in the status of teachers. The Rector’s objective absence from work for almost four months (July 9-November 7, 1920) due to his relocation with the government had a negative impact on the resolution of the university's staffing issues right before the third academic year.</jats:p>